Drywall installers and suppliers are also expected to be targets of the next wave of litigation.
Even as Mr. James prepares for the next round of litigation, it is clear from the tone of his remarks, and those of his aides, that he would prefer settlement to battle.
Either he was getting to court late because he had to drop off his daughter at preschool, or he was leaving her in his law office during afternoon meetings with clients, or he was staying up for hours after reading her bedtime stories to prepare the next day's litigation.
"The serious questions that have been raised about the scope, enforceability and effectiveness of this proposed settlement," Mr. Leahy continued, "leave me concerned that, if approved in its current form, it may simply be an invitation for the next chapter of litigation".
And third, judging from the way this case was handled, I would hire Mr Garcia any day to represent me, unless that would run afoul of current immigration law, but I guess we will have to wait for the next round of litigation to figure that out.
It's not immediately clear what will happen next in the litigation.
But Mr. Scoppetta and Ms. Lowry, director of Children's Rights, a national advocacy organization, took diametrically opposed lessons from the settlement regarding the value of new litigation in the next stages of the overhaul.
Welcome to the next great mega-litigation, likely to rival the more than $12 billion spent cleaning up the Enron and WorldCom debacles.
The Justice Ministry said reforms of no-win, no-fee legal funding arrangements will apply to insolvency litigation from next April.
The purpose, said Evan Latainer, the director of the office, is to help businesses understand what they must do to avoid a next step of possible litigation.
